REID, CHARLES (1828-97) was born in Edinburgh, and came to New Zealand in the late forties. For some time he followed his calling as a bricklayer, and then became clerk of the Dunedin town board. In 1862 he started in business as a commission agent, and in 1867 he established the Standard Property Investment Society, of which he was manager till 1885. He also founded the Standard Insurance Co. and managed it for some years, besides being interested in several terminating building societies. He acted as shorthand reporter of the proceedings of the Otago Provincial Council for the Otago Witness and for many years he contributed comical and satirical notes to that journal. Reid lived for some years in San Francisco, where he died in Sep 1897.

Otago Daily Times, 8 Oct 1897.

Reference: Volume 2, page 112

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